[Pan-users] Re: RE: Access provider, email provider, and Pan

[Beartooth]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:31:01 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> Beartooth <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Fri, 16
> Jun 2006 14:58:53 -0400:
> 
>> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:44:34 -0700, Travis wrote:
>> 
>>>> So if I were to abandon that address, would Pan be able to use some
>>>> other in some way?? Or would I have to find another newsfeed provider??
>>> 
>>> I have to use my userId and password to access my news server and I put
>>> that info in the "News Servers" and I put an invalid address in "Posting
>>> Profiles" and it works and I don't get any spam from my newsgroup posts.
>> 
>> Hmmm .... And that works?? IOW, Pan requires *something*, but it doesn't
>> have to be valid? Hmmm ... I suppose I could then put a transparently
>> munged one in my .sig ....
> 
> Yes.  The only newsgroups I use a valid address on are the gmane ones,
> which are actually mailing lists.  Everything else I use something like
> cox.reply2group.net.please as the domain name, with instructions for
> unmunging it, of course.
> 
> Note that when choosing a munged address, you want two things.  First,
> make sure it's not your real domain -- munge the domain not just the
> username portion.  If you use your normal domain, you are just causing
> them to get more spam they have to process, whether it's for a valid
> address or not.
> 
> Second, make sure it's not a valid domain at all, so you aren't causing
> someone else to get spam.  reply2group.net might be such a valid domain,
> thus the "please" at the end.  "please" isn't a valid TLD (top level
> domain), so any direct spammer harvesting isn't going to end up hurting
> whoever might have reply2group.net as their domain.

Actually, I was thinking of making one like "<Beartooth (at)
adelphia.net>," only with my real address (I.e., the one I mostly use)
instead of the adelphia.net one. Bad idea??

> Here, I actually use a dedicated address for my (non-gmane) news address
> as well.  [...]

What is a dedicated address when it's at home??

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